Far from creating designer babies, three-parent IVF is about allowing women who carry genetic diseases in their mitochondria to avoid passing them on to their children. The process involves replacing the…

Mitochondrial genes are inherited from our mothers’ eggs and passed on through her daughters to subsequent generations.
ShutterstockJuly 3, 2013

The UK government has announced its intention to draft proposals allowing carriers of mitochondrial disease to have babies using a controversial IVF treatment that’s currently prohibited. The procedure…